Book by Richard P. Gabriel. Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0195121236. Full text available online.It is a collection of essays on software engineering, writing, business, and the author's life story. The book also tells Gabriel's experience of founding and running the early 1980s startup Lucid, Inc., which is no longer in business. Lucid produced the Lucid Common Lisp implementation for Unix workstations. The product is currently supported by LispWorks, Ltd. and is called Liquid Common Lisp.